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Washington, DC: Cornelius Wendell. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Brown blindstamped cloth covered boards with heavily rubbed gilt title to spine. Spine ends and corners bumped with chipping to former and board showing at latter. Moderate soil and some creasing to front board. Binding sound, text clean. Heavy foxing to pastedowns and eps, more faintly to rest of interior. Light soil to text block. No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. ; Large 8vo, hardcover, 1206 pages. .

New York: Da Capo Press Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers.; Two volume set, Volume I Hearings and Report (ISBN: 030670465X) and Volume II Transcript of Record with the Decision and Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (ISBN: 0306704668). Berger, in 1910, "became the first socialist elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1919, he was convicted of violating the Espionage Act for his anti-militarist views and as a result was denied the seat to which he had been twice elected in the House of Representatives. The verdict was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court, and he was elected to three successive terms in the 1920s." - Wikipedia. These two volumes document the US House denial of Berger's eligibility. ; Civil Liberties in American History; Ex-Library; 918, vii, 17; 765, 22-41 in 2v pages .

Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer. pp.[1]-[132]+[1]-1206. includes 2 reports, minutes & testimony.. 1856. 1st. 8vo Majority Report pp.[1]-67; Minority Report pp.[68]-109;"Minutes of the Committee" pp.110-132; "The Testimony" pp.[1]-1206. Original blind-stamped cloth with bright spine gilt, light edge wear & cover spots, endpapers & endleaves browned, piece torn from the margin of one leaf not affecting text, an otherwise very good tight, clean copy. Series: House of Representatives, 34th Congress, 1st Session, Report No.200. Congrssional report on the tumultuous events surrounding the controversial question of Kansas statehood & the extension of slavery into the Territories, following the repeal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The events were a prelude to the Civil War. Cohen 10795 (lacks Erratum called for at p.132) .